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What is Characteristic Line? Technical analysts’ stock in trade are their charts, which crunch the numerical data from past trading dates to assess the market’s sentiment towards a particular tradeable asset. The characteristic line is the measurement of the asset’s historical excess return relative to return under zero risk conditions.
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Finance allah shmoop what is characteristic line thie characteristic line
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is a quote fitted unquote line through a bunch of
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data points that reflects the character of the data itself
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Like all these dots here they actually have a character
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like pathos and humanity and you see it getting feel
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it never mind well these things are points relating the
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returns from coca cola stock versus the s and p
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five hundred over some period of time Well that highly
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similarly fitted line shows that the performance of k o
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it's the ticker for coke if you live on mars
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is very closely related to the performance of the overall
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market when the market goes up While generally speaking ko
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goes up as well had the line slope the opposite
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direction because the data looked like this than ko would
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be A negatively correlated line with the performance of the
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market in its characteristic would be the opposite direction Well
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the key idea is that lines through bunches of data
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points Those things give character or at least a characteristic
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explaining the direction of a given trend whether it's a
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stock price the popularity of a new children's toy or
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the ebola infection rate way less fun than that children's
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toy thing Yeah line basically is a summary of all
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the dots That's what it is Well reading the tea
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leaves of these graphs is a big part of what
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chartist style invest or traders All do So if you
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like dots and plots and lines and did a whole
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lot of light bright when you were a kid well
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then maybe this one's for you And if you've got
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some experience in the mortuary business well you might be
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able to come up with some kind of crossover gig 00:01:49.619 --> [endTime] Ooh
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